by Michael Padfield | Aug 6, 2026 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Eighth Edition, Featured article, Policy Insights
Michael Padfield says the Civil Service must undertake transformation, not passively undergo it A friend turning up to court with an AI assistant instead of a lawyer; a father trusting a chatbot over his family doctor; a mother confiding to an algorithm, not a...
by Sir Rich Knighton | Aug 4, 2026 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Eighth Edition, Featured article
Sir Rich Knighton, Chief of the Defence Staff, on the next-generation battlefields The way humans fight has changed dramatically through history, driven by emerging new technology and war itself. With the rate of change in technology now faster than at any other time...
by Rosehanna Chowdhury | Jul 1, 2026 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Eighth Edition, Featured article, International Perspectives, Policy Insights
Rosehanna Chowdhury explains how and why the UK should build a whole-of-society response As a member of the COBR operations team in the Cabinet Office early in my civil service career, I got a taste of why it’s important to be resilient in the modern world. Two...
by Nick Kimber | Jun 24, 2026 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Delivery, Eighth Edition, Featured article, Policy Insights
Nick Kimber highlights the urgent need for better collaboration between Whitehall and local communities At the beginning of last year, a small team of public sector employees in Sheffield celebrated a fourfold increase in the number of children applying for early...
by Sally Davies | May 19, 2026 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Featured article, Policy Insights, Seventh Edition
Professor Dame Sally Davies calls for new thinking to mobilise governments, health systems and communities In 2024, an off-Broadway Scottish musical called The Mould That Changed The World (now renamed Lifeline) was performed on the floor of the United Nations,...
by Harry Booty | May 6, 2026 | Articles, Data, Tech and Innovation, Featured article, Policy Insights, Seventh Edition
Research by Harry Booty suggests that a mix of cultural and pragmatic considerations are at play It is now slightly more than three years since large language models (LLMs) in their current form burst into our collective consciousness and began to remake the...